Coronavirus: How PursueCare Can Help Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a top concern for healthcare providers. The CDC predicts an inevitable spread of the virus throughout the United States. The Kentucky Department for Public Health held a statewide webinar for clinicians and public health on March...

What are Opioids & Opioid Addiction? Opioids are a class of drugs that are commonly prescribed to treat pain. Opioids include both opiates (drugs derived from the opium poppy, including morphine, codeine, heroin, and opium) and synthetic opioids like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone, which have similar...

Reading The Play: How To Identify and Prevent Opioid Dependency In Athletes It’s a story that is becoming more and more familiar in today’s society. A promising young athlete’s life is destroyed due to Opioid Use Disorder. It’s all too sad, and throughout the country...

Opioids and the Brain Opioids are powerful drugs that act on the central nervous system in order to provide pain relief. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classifies most commercially available opioids as Schedule II controlled substances. This means that drugs such as morphine, fentanyl, oxycodone...